Submitted by: Dan Rich

Dorothy Mae Murray

Feb. 8, 1934 - Sept. 14, 1996

South Bend Tribune 9/16/1996

Dorothy Mae Murray, 62, beloved wife of Jack and devoted mother of Diana (Hardy) of Mishawaka, Bonnie (Juday) of Dowagiac and Kirk of South Bend, died on Saturday afternoon at her home in Dowagiac after a lengthy illness. Her visitation will be on Tuesday at Groner Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 5 to 7 p.m. The funeral will take place on Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Groner Funeral Home.

Dorothy (Nicely) was born on Feb. 8, 1934, in South Bend. She and Jack married on Oct. 19, 1952 in South Bend and moved to their current home in the Twin Lakes area of Dowagiac in 1977. She was both a homemaker and a bus attendent for handicapped students at Lewis Cass School for nine years prior to retirement in 1987. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter 2 of South Bend and a Mother Advisor of Rainbow Girls, Assembly 1 of South Bend.

Along with her husband and three children, she is survived by eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, as well as three brothers, Richard Nicely and Walter Nicely Jr. both of South Bend and Virgil Nicely of Elkhart; two half-brothers, David Nicely of Three Oaks and Danny Nicely of Glendora, Mich.; three stepbrothers, Robert Rosenthal of Portage, Mich., Leroy Rosenthal of Three Oaks and Ronnie Rosenthal of Niles; and a stepmother, Adeline Nicely of Glendora, Mich. Memorial contributions can be made to VNA Hospice of Southwest Michigan.